Electronic ignition Slant six with low comp

whitepunkonnitro said
When I last ran Top Fuel back in 97 or so, we were using two mags...Supermag V's. We were making approx. 3500 horsepower spinning 8000 in the lights and never had any ignition issues what-so-ever.
So, what is on top of a Supermag V triggering the spark? Right, a single set of points!
Points or HEI do not generate the spark, they only trigger when it happens.
30 years ago when I was street racing this stuff...High Compression BB's and Hemi's, I tried every ignition system under the sun. I ultimately found that a good quality Dual Point distributor gave the most reliable performance with the least amount of complication. If the point ignition is set up correctly, there is zero performance advantage when changing to electronic.

I can agree with you on the performance side. I was thinking reliability/ maintenance. Street car use. I remember being in a Ford Maverick with some chick from school and she drove through a water puddle on a rainy night, car shut off. she knew what it was and how to fix it though, my kind of girl. If someone with a street car wants to toy with points every 10-12000 miles that is their choice I suspect. They are easy to troubleshoot, that is correct also. You can pretty much get the car running on the side of the road like I said with a boat. In that respect, I can tip my hat for points.